St. Paul daily globe., 1887-12-02

ing by our sides, with prayers and faith,
song and speeches. Oh, would that we
might say with ballot also, Victory
will come to US by and by. Be not inn
patient. ''In God We Trust" Let US
fix 10 date for our triumph, but stand
fast until it comes. If we fall, other
voices will sing the songs of victory.
Let us with profound sincerity and with
faith in the people, go forward with our
good work of instruction, invitation, en-
treaty and warning. With argument
and kindly methods let us persuade
them. We encounter miSjudgment, re-
proach and condemnation unmeasured,
sometimes from sources that should
give us encouragement and prayer and
a God bless you. Let us not shrink
from the sternest denunciatiOn or ridi-
cule or ScOrn of those who are recreant
to the best interests of humanity.
Thou every enthroned i'll,
Our faith sits higher still.
High as the throne where right with God
appears.
So lifted over fate.
SO strong to work and wait.
Are they who count upon the eternal years.
With such faith let us pound away
at the gigantic, atrociouS, diabOiical,
nameleSS 'MOnStrum horrendum' that
is preying upon the very vitals of
home and cOuntry-the liquor traffic"
Gen. FiSke was followed by
EX-G0Y. ST. JOHN.
He said in substance: ''Mr. President
and Citizens-FOr nearly forty years
this country has been under the control
OF the two old parties, and what is its
legal, social, moral and political cOndi-
ton to-day? Let us see. We hang and
imprisOH anarchists. and at the same
time legaliZe, protect and perpetuate
300, 900 saloons, the hOt-bedS where an
archy is prOpagated, thriyes and fattenS.
While the drunkard goes to perditiOn,
the drunkard-maker goes to the Iegisla-
ture to enact laws for the people. Chill
dren cry for bread, and the father sent
home penniless and drunk. While the
mother is powerieSS to protect he home
and her boy with the ballot. the saloon
keeper destroys both with his ballot.
As the Sabbath bells invite the people
to the house of God, the brass band
leads the way to the Sunday horse race,
prize fight, base ball and beer gareen.
jeff Davis in his dotage, without a bal
lot, denounced as traitor, and the
EX-REBEL GUERRILLA MOSEBY,
in the prime of his manhood with bal
lot given foreign mission. The right
of free ballot is demanded for the
black men of the South, while white
men are burned and hung in effigy for
exercising that right in the North. Min
listers of the gospel were prosecuted and
driven from the pulpit for preaching
and voting against African slavery forty
years ago. and they have been perSe-
cuted, bOycotted and driven from the
pulpit for preaching and voting against
the rum slavery of to-day. Lovejoy fell
a martyr to freedom in the fight against
the slavery curse. IIaddOck and Gam
brel and four others hove fallen martyrs
to our homes i'll this struggle against
the saloon curse. In the face of politi-
cal platforms declaring for a fair
count" the black man is counted out in
Mississippi and South Carolina in his
race for congress. and the white man
counted out in Michigan and Ohio in
his fight for prohibition. While heavy
import duties are placed upon foreign
goods, the scum of foreign labor enters
free. Protection for tine blacksmith's
hammer. but free trade for the black
smiths muscle. American ships prac
tically driven from the seas; country
without a navy; the peoples money
locked up in the vaults Of the treasury,
and half dozen mOnOp0liSts
CONTROLLING OUR HIGHWAYS
to the markets of the world. For every
dollar expended to educate and make
strong for the right through the intiu-
ence of our public schools, S15 is eX-
| pended to tear down and destroy through
the influence of the public saloons.
Ignorant, vile, prOfane, vicious, dis
honest, blear-eyed drunken bummerS
and trampS are allowed to vote. because
they are men; but our mothers. wives
and daughters, educated, refined, honest,
pure, noble and true, not allowed to vote
! In
breath bribe-taking is condemned, in the
next, bribery bureau. with political
anarchist at its head, is unblushingly
admitted TO be a part of the political
| machinery of great party. While a
poor woman is fined heavily for play
! fully pitching a pancake at a preSiden-
tial party. an 5000 diamond mounted
gold belt is given to John l.. Sullivan as
the champion Slugger of the world. And
yet the people are asked to perpetuate
the political parties uuder whose rule
this condition of things has been
| brought about. And why? Surely not
because either of them stand pledged to
a higher standard of morality, the sup
preston of the liquor traffic and greater
| protection to Our homes and our boys,
for
NO SUCH PLEDGES
are made by them. Then what is the
result of voting for such parties? Why.
simply to continue the old order of
| things and perpetuate the sectional. pO-
! litical and race prejudices of two Old
| parties who have no OiSSue between them
| except to determine which shall have
| the offices and control the public plum
| der. The Chicago Tribune plainly tells
us this morning that the license system
| is to be continued and intimateS that
prOhibitioniStS are ready TO compromise
with the liquor traffic. We say to the
Tribune and its party that the PrOhibi-
ton party has mo compromise with
wrong" inscribed upon its banner, and
we propose to fight it out upon that line
until, under Gods guidance, every sa-
| loon has been driven from our land and
| the houses of the people made free. And
i'll 1885, as heretofore, we propose to ap-
peal to reason and so arouse the heart
and conscience of the people, that with
in five years from now the Tribune and
its followers will be forced into the
| Democratic camp, or compelled to join
the Prohibition party. There will be no
other place for it to go. And i'll this
campaign the man who shall lead Us to
a glorious triumph is, that honest pa
triOt and Christian statesman. Gen.
Clinton 3. FiSke. of New Jersey"
A BelIigerant Mayor.